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Diary - Monday 9 July 2007

9 July 2007

The Diary is currently afflicted by a very particular kind of pain which derives from a combination of being both horribly busy and severely bored. I am disinclined to relay every single one of the Grimsby Telegraph's current sequence of desperately contrived stories about former Town players ("Edwards takes armband at Notts"... "Burnett backs Buckley for Town glory"... "Coyne blows nose"... "Crane's arse still big"), and so it is a good thing that Diary readers have been emailing madly to fill the void. "Have I missed something?" asks Mark Wilson, referring back to a quote from Guest Diary on this page last Wednesday. "David Cameron has committed murder and taken a gay lover? Crikey..." Well, Mark, it's all part of Dave's efforts to convince a sceptical public that The Tory Party Has Changed (No, Really, Honest). Little Billy Hague's backwards baseball cap at the Notting Hill Carnival stunt clearly didn't go far enough, and Cameron is simply demonstrating that the Conservatives are no longer in the business of using single mothers, the Germans, gay people and murderers as the scapegoats for all of society's ills. In this he could usefully be emulated by serial play-off loser Russell Slade, who was in the habit of doing likewise with Frenchmen, genuine or otherwise.

Speaking of the French, The Story of O is an erotic novel published in the 1950s by French author Anne Desclos under the pseudonym Pauline Réage, notorious for its explicit treatment of a whole range of sado-masochistic activities. And now that the Diary's copy is getting a bit dog-eared, it's nice to have an email from O to replace it. "Glad to see the continuation of your greatest goals series," writes O. "About the Cockerill goal, you can actually see it by the wonders of the internet here from around 2:20, but still, the other goals aren't half bad either." Thanks, O - we've added the link on the actual goal page as well. Anyone got any other good links for online Town video?

"At least this big GTFC/Radio Humberside kerfuffle means I no longer have to debate getting up at 2am on a Sunday morning once I'm in Christchurch to listen to Town games," writes CA statistician and general good egg Andy Holt, who will depart these shores for a new life in New Zealand later this month. Hooray for John Fenty's obstreperousness! Martyn Wyburn, meanwhile, asks: "You may have mentioned this already and I apologise if you have, but can anyone at Cod Almighty explain why the headline under the Grimsby link on the BBC website is all about Dagenham going to Stockport on the first day of the season? Have I missed something or is it just that the BBC website people are as incompetent as the GT official site people?" I think it's just that there's been absolutely no news about Town at all since the day the fixture list was published. And with that, today's Diary is over - keep emailing, and be sure to come back tomorrow for more no Town news!